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District List: ELC-4 Unit 3 Biographies/Autobiographies/Memoirs

Description: Students select an author to read about and study. Some students may want to explore this genre in more depth by reading additional autobiographies and/or memoirs. #mcps


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What's the Big Idea, Ben Franklin?

by Jean Fritz

A brief biography of the eighteenth-century printer, inventor, and statesman who played an influential role in the early history of the United States.

Date Added: 09/17/2019


When Marian Sang

by Pam Muñoz Ryan

An introduction to the life of Marian Anderson, extraordinary singer and the first African American to perform with the Metropolitan Opera, whose life and career encouraged social change.

Winner of the Sibert Honor

Date Added: 09/17/2019


When Marian Sang

by Pam Muñoz Ryan and Brian Selznick

NIMAC-sourced textbook

Date Added: 09/17/2019


Wilbur and Orville Wright

by Louis Sabin

Focuses on the childhood of the Wright brothers and the inventiveness they displayed from their earliest days.

Date Added: 09/17/2019



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